The suspended, soon-to-be free-agent coach's leverage keeps getting stronger. The likelihood of his good buddy Jerry Jones making a high-dollar pitch to hire Payton away from the New Orleans Saints increases every time the Dallas Cowboys perform like a poorly prepared pee wee team in Jerry's $1.2 billion football palace.

Matthew Emmons/US PresswireJason Garrett is giving Jerry Jones less and less reason to keep faith in him with the Cowboys' continued poor play, particularly at the start of games.

The rest of the Cowboys' season is really about Jason Garrett justifying his boss' wavering belief that he's the right guy to coach this team.

Can you come up with any good reasons right now?

Jerry couldn't after the Cowboys followed the normal format of digging a huge hole at home and fighting hard in a failed comeback bid.

It continues to be all process and no progress under Garrett. It reached the point after a 38-31 to the Washington Redskins on Thanksgiving Day that even Jerry had to admit any talk about believing this mediocre team is headed in the right direction rings hollow.

I wish everyone would just stop talking about Payton coming here to coach. Hes not coming, and the last thing this team needs is some bounty, dirty coach calling the shots.

You are right, we better stick with Garrett, after all he is a hell of a coach with his 18-17 overall record and his 6-10 record in the last sixteen games, (which by the way, 5 of the 6 wins came against teams with losing record with the other one being this year’s opening game), but I get you who would want Sean Payton with his 62-34 record, with 4 playoff appearances in 6 years, reaching the championship game once and winning a super bowl on another but hey, to each his own.

You are right, we better stick with Garrett, after all he is a hell of a coach with his 18-17 overall record and his 6-10 record in the last sixteen games, (which by the way, 5 of the 6 wins came against teams with losing record with the other one being this year&#8217;s opening game), but I get you who would want Sean Payton with his 62-34 record, with 4 playoff appearances in 6 years, reaching the championship game once and winning a super bowl on another but hey, to each his own.

Can we also add completely resurrecting a terrible franchise in there too?

You are right, we better stick with Garrett, after all he is a hell of a coach with his 18-17 overall record and his 6-10 record in the last sixteen games, (which by the way, 5 of the 6 wins came against teams with losing record with the other one being this year’s opening game), but I get you who would want Sean Payton with his 62-34 record, with 4 playoff appearances in 6 years, reaching the championship game once and winning a super bowl on another but hey, to each his own.

He most certainly won’t, but we have a good QB here and with good coaching, play calling and leadership could be one of the game’s best IMO. Do you remember Brees in SD, what could have changed him into one of the best QB´s in the league I wonder??

2. Payton built the Saints and has a SB ring to stand on for a lifetime. He has a tailor made offense that can score at will and are always in the game. Their only knock has been defense. Why leave that for Dallas?

I am now fully onboard with Payton coming to Big D. This whole roster almost needs to be blown up. These guys have underachieved since 2007 and we still have the same core. For whatever reason we just have not gotten it done.

Romo, Witten, Ware only have so many yrs left...this team should have won it in 07 when we were young. Bring Payton in even though I hate to see Red discarded, draft and FA on OL with 1 DL stud or saftey and we can compete next year.

Our only hope at this point is that the Vagiants totally implode, but even at that we would not get far the way we are currently built.

He most certainly won’t, but we have a good QB here and with good coaching, play calling and leadership could be one of the game’s best IMO. Do you remember Brees in SD, what could have changed him into one of the best QB´s in the league I wonder??

So you are saying that Payton made Brees the talent that he is?
I hope you get what makes you happy and if it makes the Cowboys better Im in. Im just unsure about wanting a man with a reputation for being dirty. Seriously he got suspended for a whole year. Ndamukong Suh is great but Im not sure about wanting him on my team.

2. Payton built the Saints and has a SB ring to stand on for a lifetime. He has a tailor made offense that can score at will and are always in the game. Their only knock has been defense. Why leave that for Dallas?

3. Owner and GM JJones....

1. Who cares? Never stopped anyone before. They are friends and Im sure Jerry has his cell.

So you are saying that Payton made Brees the talent that he is?
I hope you get what makes you happy and if it makes the Cowboys better Im in. Im just unsure about wanting a man with a reputation for being dirty. Seriously he got suspended for a whole year. Ndamukong Suh is great but Im not sure about wanting him on my team.

You must be new. Some of the greatest defences ever put bounties on players. I dont care about being dirty. Id rather have dirty than the orange slices under the goal posts losers we have now.